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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1975-10-23, Page 1„ry• - :.../r40010,0'1 FIVE AM FIRE DESTROYS SHED- Flames could be seen from a block away as Seaforth firemen put out the blaze in a shed behind Mr. and Mrs. John Ball's John St. 'house early Monday morning. Although weather was windy, heavy rain was falling and firemen kept the blaze away from Bill McLaughlin (Motors, right behind the shed, and adjacent houses. Mrs. Ball said she did not know who turned in the alarm and that the fire siren woke her family up. The shed, which was insured, stored lawn mowers, a barbecue and snow tires. •Mrs. Ball said the cause of the fire was unknown, but the shed was wired and possibly mice could have chewed through the wires. (Staff Photo) Whole No. 5615 "i116th, Year FIRST MOTION PAGES 1 18 THE R N.,EXPOSITOR, 00TOPER 23, 1975 24 PAGES HU Egmondville taxpayer Ask:s ..fOr street I theaper wafer (By Wilma Oke) Alvin Regier of Egmondville told Tuckersmith council he was concerned about the lack of street lights on his street Tuesday night. He lives on George Street, the houndary line between Egmondville and Seaforth, and the doubling of his water rates by Seaforth P.U.C. Egmondville residents who use Seaforth water pay twice the rate of Seaforth " home owners for Seaforth water. With two recent increases in water rates Mr. Regier says he now must pay $180 per year. He said he was considering drilling a well. He thought the rate to have Egmondville water supplied to his home was high with an installation cost of $400. Mr. Regier said he may find out what his neighbours feel about digging a well or what they pin to do to avoid the new high rates charged by Seaforth PUC. On the lack of street lights on his street except for one at the corner he complained that, "Tuckersmith is not worrying about our street. You get the revenue from the residents op the street but we , have no street service, no water service, no telephone service, no street lights. When. do yo u figure on doing anything on that street? I've been there 12 years and you have done nothing. Do I get a rebate on the $18 I've been 'paying for street lights that are not there? I don't mind paying for something I'm getting. You get the assessment of that street, I'm sure yeu have never paid Seaforth for the lights when they 'were, there." There were Seaforth lights on the street until the PUC removed the old poles and put in poles with high tension wires but no lights.)'' Mr. Regier suggestsed that: "We would be better off if Seaforth took over that part of Egmondville:" He said taxes would be no higher in Seaforth compared to what he pays for .taxes, water rates, hydrO Council agreed something should be done about the street lighting situation and will contact the Seaforth PUC again to see what might be worked out. The cost of providing and installing water meters at Vanastra is to be investigated by the Vanastra plant staff with the township clerk, James McIntosh. Allen Ladbrooke, Manager and Marc Bell, operations officer of the Utility Operations of the London office of the Ministry of the Environment attended the council meeting to discuss the Vanastra Water sytem, the leak survey carried out by the Ministry in August, repairs of the leaks and the use of water meters. Don McLean, the plant superintendent, and John Cullen, the plant operator were at the meeting. Mr. Cullen said they found about 30 leaks all on private property including ten apartments at Vanastra and none from the distributer mains to the property lines. He said with no metering, people apparently are not concerned about leakage. Mr. Cullen named the locationS of several propetties with leaks unrepaired. The owners are to be notified to' fix them up. If meters are approved news 'water rates will be set to cover costs. The Soldan drainage works' report was provisionally adopted. This drain is estimated to cost $4,500 of which 27% per cent is to be assessed against Tuckersmith and the rest against Ray Township. Tenders are to be called for the maintenance and repair of the Layton Dtain and they are to be in by November 4. Building permit applications were approved for: Joost Veenstra, R.R.5, Clinton, addition to barnz Gerrit Wynja, R.R. 4, Seaforth, new house; and Jim Brown, Egmondville, addition to trailer. A request for a garage and workshop from Ron Hopper, Harpurhey, was turned down until further information was received about the use and appearance of the building that it would not be unsightly. Passed for payment was the Vanastra Recreation payroll account amounting to $1,233.36 and the tile drainage debenture repayment amounting to $1,035.72. Council accepted the snowplow tender of Louis McNichol of Egmondville-at the rate of $21. per hour and $15 per day stand by time while not working. Council will upgrade insurance (Continued on Page 12) Pti,despeaker says 'Only psychiatrists get more stress than H.S. teachers WI MEMBERS SURPRISED-Two Iona time members of the Seaforth Womens Institute were surprised. Monday night when they were presented with life memberships. Both have been WI members for at On Fire Board disputes least 25 consecutive years. Jean Keyes, left presented the honour to Viola Lawson, while Doris Hugill, current WI president, received her life membership from Doreen Coleman. (Staff Photo) McKillop wants arbitrator (By Jim Fitzgerald) Secondary school teachers are doing a good job in Ontario in spite of many handicaps, a Toronto man told about 200 Huron . County teachers on Monday. Jim Head of Scarboro, the co-ordinator of a study on the role of the secondary school in Ontario revealed parts of his year long study into the secondary school to the teachers who were assprnbled for a day long prottssional development seminar at Central Huron Secondary School in Clinton. Mr. Head is preparing a 500,000 word report on the secondary school based on a year's study financed by the Ontario Secondary School Tea- cher's Federation. , (OSSTF) The report, which was started in August of 1974, should be ready by January of this year and is expected to raise as much controversary as the Hall-Dennis report - did on public school education in 1967. The Hall-Dennis report recom- mented sweeping changes' in the schools and Mr. Head said that it neglected to look closer at the problems of secondary schools. The report, which solicited mater- ial through questionnaires to Corn dryers are busiest 4 places One of the busiest places in town these days has to bethe corn receiving department at Topnotch Feeds. Long lines of farm gravity wagons heaped high with golden corn, stand waiting to be emptied 24 haurs a day. Allan Ducharmesof R.R. 2, Dublin said he has had to 6 wait up to seven or eight hours to have his wagons unloaded. Gordon.. MacDonald, elevator man at the Topnotch plant said that they are handling up to 15,000 bushels of corn in a day. The corn is hulled in various ways. Some , is brougth. in by the farmer to be dried andtaken back home, some is stored at the plant by the farmer and will be taken (Continued on Page 12). 34,000 secondary teachers, 15,000 students and parents, and briefs from government agencies, industry and social agencies, will in part list 12 areas of concern to secondary' school teachers. Problems listed included; violence and vandalism as a potential trouble maker here; declining enrolments because of the lower birth rate; increased pregsures on teachers to give social and moral training without adequate training; too much emphasis on political decisions rather than philosophical ones; different expectations of various groups such as parents, teachers, and trustees; too much admini- strative bureaucracy and lack of rewards and incentives in areas where enrolment is low. Other important points which Mr. Head said concerned tea- chers were stresses for today's teachers. "The only other-group subject to more stressare psychiatrists," he said. Mr. Head also said that teachers are concerned that schools are becoming too large and, depersonalized and many, persons want to know what they are getting for their money. "Can the training of students be equated with the production of goods?" Mr. Head asked. The equalities are not the same for women in secondary schools Mr. Head said, and female students too are not receiving the opportunities as the males. He said he found that more and more teachers' are expressing a professional concern for the direc- tion of secondary education and more', and more are becoming involved in politics to improve the system. "Teachers are first and fore- most people. They are not libraries, machines or dissemin- ators of knowledge," Mr. Head said. 'Discussion • on the legality of McKillop Township opting out part of its territory from the Seaforth Fire Area -Board continued at the board meeting Monday night. Seaforth contends that member municipalities can't get ant of the agreement until 10 years after ' the agreement for joint fire protection was signed, in 1980. Seaforth deputy reeve Bill Dale says he asked for and got an official motion from the Board asking that McKillop be allowed ,to take the northern part of her township out of the coverage area. "It's kind of doe,btful", that Seaforth council will agree,- he said. McKillop reeve Allan Campbell says that the other fire area members, Hibbert, Hullett and Tuckersmith feel that they have already given their okay. Reeve Campbell says his lawyer says that the section of the agreement that bans municipalities from opting au+ applies only to a municipality as a whole, not just a portion of one. He feels that the prohibition doesn't apply since only part of the township was removed from the fire ar ea. Seaforth's Dale says that once the Fire Area Board starts releasing one party, the rest could decide to go too. "We're not being tough, we're just standing (by the agreement. If they can show the I'm wrong, I'll forget it," he said. "You can't legislate for only one municipality." The McKillop reeve says he finds the wh' ole thing "most discouraging". Seaforth should either agree to McKillop's move or "say were not getting out and that's final." If Seaforth refuses to let the part of McKillop get out of the agreement, Campbell says that McKillop will insist on re-assessing Seaforth's payments to the board back to 1971. The reeve says that Seaforth has been under assessed because the town is not paying for fire coverage on town owned, religious, and other tax exempt buildings. "The town hall can burn just as easily as your house," he points out. Once Seaforth pays for fire coverage on these buildings, McKillop and Seaforth would be paying about equal percentages of fire area costs, Reeve Campbell says. Deputy Reeve 'Dale said that there probably should have been Huron-Bruce Murray Gaunt would not be a leadership of Liberal party. Mr. Gaunt, who won his riding in the September election with a majority of over 10,000 had been pressed to announce ghat he would become a candidate. Mr. Gaunt, 41, who first was elected in a 1962 byelection, said his major reason for not running is his unwillingness to subject his young ,,family - to the extra pressures involved. Mr. Gaunt, a farmer, Said he does not feel he could giVe his party the "decided urban thrust" fuller public discussion at the time when McKillop first opted out, in 1973. Reeve Campbell said he'd like a neutral arbitrator, perhaps a judge from Goderich, to decide the issue. "If he says no way, well okay." that is needed from anew leader. He said the party did extremely well in Western Ontario in the Sept. 18 election, made major breakthroughs in Eastern Ontario and held its two seats in Northern Ontario, but suffered badly in Metro Toronto where it won only three of 29 seats. The Liberals won 36 seats in the election, losing second place to the NDP, which won 38 seats. The Conservatives held on to power with. 51 seats. The party has scheduled a leadership convention for January 23 - 15 to select a leader to succeed Robert Nixon who resigned' shortly after the election. wl GOLDEN KERNELS — Ralph Fisher of Walton and Russell Miller watch the corn pouring out from one of the three wagon toads that Mr."Fisher.,,brought into the corn dryer Wednesday. At the height of the rush by local farmers to get their corn dried, there were six and eight h our waits to use dryers in some places. (Photo by Oke) Liberal M.P.P. said Monday he candidate for the the Provincial Gaunt's not a candidate